Not ashamed anymore.

[Violet]

Yea but I wouldn't trade places with Madoff or Gadaffi. Happiness still amounts to being happy with yourself first. Material things come and go, but relationships are really the ultimate things that we have that matter.

Wouldn't you, though? They had amazing control over their populations until foreigners got involved

Relationships are material things, and they come and go.

For example. I wouldn't trade the knowledge in my head that lead me to my atheism for any amount of money.

I'd trade my 'atheism' in a heartbeat for money, I mean... even as a theist: I'd still not care very much about the whole afterlife thing.

Life is still ultimately a range and people are individuals. Life is not a script. All one can do or should do is simply be themselves and be happy no matter what their income is if they go up to the top, or get to the middle or even stay at the bottom.

Feels like a script to me, it's why I'm a deist

Staying at the bottom's pretty shit for being happy, and if being yourself is what's keeping you there: maybe you should temporarily rethink that.